Quotes about Individuality
Only a human being can say I'm sorry. Forgive me. This is part of our particularity. It is part of what makes us capable of tears, capable of laughter.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Its good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what youve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; youll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, youll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.
— Malcolm X
You become what you think, not what others think of you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is a stage: perform your masterpiece.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We are all special cases.
— Albert Camus
Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
— John Barrymore
For it is a moroseness too imperious, to wish that what we ourselves follow as right, and consonant with our duty, should be prescribed as a law to others.
— John Calvin
As soon as there was two there was pride
— John Donne
To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.
— John Donne
She is all states, and all princes, I. Nothing else is.
— John Donne
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I am neither in the past, nor avant-garde. My style follows life.
— Coco Chanel